Re: apt wants to remove 526 packages!!?

[Peter Nelson <rufus@hackish.org>]

Alexandru Cabuz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I usually do a 
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> every couple of days. When there are bugs I just put packages on hold
> and wait it out, and after a month I try them individually, and if
> they are still buggy, then I leave them on hold.
>
> I decided tonight I was sick of this, so I would do apt-get dist-upgrade.
>  
Do note that anything that's on hold won't get upgraded by 
dist-upgrade.  I have ssh on hold to a version I built myself and it 
doesn't get upgraded with dist-upgrade.  You probably have a package on 
hold that's been updated and causes other things to break.

-Peter